Deaths in October 1999

The following is a list of notable deaths in October 1999.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
 * Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

1

 * Ted Arison, 75, Israeli businessman, heart attack.
 * Pietro Maria Bardi, 99, Italian writer, curator and collector.
 * Kuei Chih-hung, 61, Hong Kong filmmaker, liver cancer.
 * Glen Foster, 69, American sailor and Olympic medalist, esophageal cancer.
 * Norbert Felix Gaughan, 78, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
 * Noel Johnson, 82, English actor.
 * Gunnar Ljungström, 94, Swedish aerodynamics and automobile engineer.
 * Wim Polak, 75, Dutch politician, mayor of Amsterdam (1977–1983), cancer.
 * Lena Zavaroni, 35, Scottish singer and a television show host, pneumonia.

2

 * Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani, Albanian Islamic scholar.
 * Kim Hyun-jun, 39, South Korean basketball player, car accident.
 * Tosio Katō, 82, Japanese mathematician.
 * Heinz G. Konsalik, 78, German novelist.
 * R. S. Krishnan, 88, Indian experimental physicist and scientist.
 * Lee Lozano, 68, American painter and visual artist.
 * Danny Mayo, 49, American songwriter, heart attack.
 * Lee Richardson, 73, American actor (Prizzi's Honor, Brubaker, Network).
 * Wayne Sevier, 58, American gridiron football coach, heart attack.
 * Georg Tintner, 82, Austrian conductor, suicide.

3

 * Paul Burris, 76, American baseball player.
 * Alastair Hetherington, 79, British journalist and editor of The Guardian.
 * N. Mohanan, 66, Indian Malayalam -language short story writer and novelist.
 * Akio Morita, 78, Japanese businessman and co-founder of Sony, pneumonia.

4

 * Bernard Buffet, 71, French painter, suicide.
 * Art Farmer, 71, American jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player.
 * De Villiers Graaff, 85, South African politician.
 * Nikkyō Niwano, 92, Japanese Buddhist leader.
 * Emil Schumacher, 87, German painter.
 * Rod Shoate, 46, American gridiron football player.
 * Leonard Shoen, 83, American entrepreneur, suicide by car crash.
 * Robert G. L. Waite, 80, Canadian historian, psychohistorian, and academic.

5

 * Fernand Dubé, 70, Canadian lawyer and politician, heart attack.
 * Earl Evans, 89, American biochemist.
 * Alex Lowe, 40, American mountaineer, avalanche.
 * Frank K. Richardson, 85, American attorney and judge, Parkinson's disease.
 * Jack Somerville, 89, New Zealand presbyterian leader.

6

 * Larry Floyd, 91, Australian politician.
 * Randi Kolstad, 74, Norwegian theater and screen actress.
 * Gorilla Monsoon, 62, American wrestler and commentator, complications of diabetes.
 * Patrick Reilly, 90, British diplomat and ambassador.
 * Amália Rodrigues, 79, Portuguese singer known as the "Queen of Fado", heart attack.
 * Tatevik Sazandaryan, 83, Soviet and Armenian operatic mezzo-soprano.
 * Maris Wrixon, 82, American film and television actress, heart failure.

7

 * Deryck Guyler, 85, English actor.
 * David A. Huffman, 74, American computer scientist, cancer.
 * Bruce Ritter, 72, American catholic priest and Franciscan friar, cancer.
 * Genrikh Sapgir, 70, Russian poet and fiction writer, heart attack.
 * Lucien Thèze, 86, French basketball player.
 * Dimitri Tsafendas, 81, Greek-Mozambican political militant, pneumonia.
 * Helen Vinson, 92, American film actress.
 * Dave Whitsell, 63, American football player, cancer.

8

 * Manfredo Fest, 63, Brazilian bossa nova and jazz pianist and keyboardist.
 * Henri Koch-Kent, 94, Luxembourgian publicist, author, and historian.
 * Zezé Macedo, 83, Brazilian comedienne and actress.
 * John McLendon, 84, American basketball coach.
 * Reinis Zusters, 81, Latvian-Australian artist.

9

 * Dutch Dotterer, 67, American baseball player.
 * Milt Jackson, 76, American jazz vibraphonist, liver cancer.
 * Akhtar Hameed Khan, 85, Pakistani social scientist, heart attack.
 * James M. Logan, 78, American soldier and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
 * João Cabral de Melo Neto, 79, Brazilian poet and diplomat.
 * Rolf Stein, 88, German-French sinologist and tibetologist.
 * Morris West, 83, Australian novelist and playwright.
 * Franz Wolf, 92, German nazi SS-Oberscharführer and Holocaust perpetrator during World War II.

10

 * Patrick Campbell, 22, Northern Irish republican and volunteer, stabbed.
 * George Forrest, 84, American writer of music and lyrics for musicals.
 * Alfredo Gil, 84, Mexican singer (Trio Los Panchos).
 * Gul Hassan Khan, Pakistani Army general.
 * Hajime Nakamura, 86, Japanese indologist, philosopher and academic.
 * Ted White, 86, Australian cricketer.

11

 * Adriano Bassetto, 74, Italian football player.
 * Fakir Baykurt, 70, Turkish author and trade unionist.
 * Galina Bystrova, 65, Soviet athlete.
 * John Foot, Baron Foot, 90, British politician and Life Peer.
 * Leo Lionni, 89, Italian-American author and illustrator of children's books, Parkinson's disease.
 * Colette Picard, 85, French archaeologist and historian.
 * Oscar Valicelli, 84, Argentine film actor.

12

 * Carlos Barreto, 23, Venezuelan bantamweight boxer and Olympian, brian trauma sustained during match.
 * Wilt Chamberlain, 63, American basketball player (Los Angeles Lakers, Philadelphia 76ers) and actor (Conan the Destroyer), heart failure.
 * Frank Frost, 63, American blues harmonica player, cardiac arrest, heart attack.
 * Ayako Miura, 77, Japanese novelist, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
 * Clément Perron, 70, Canadian film director and screenwriter.

13

 * Geoffrey Burke, 86, English Roman Catholic bishop.
 * Ingrid Englund, 73, Swedish alpine skier and Olympian.
 * Michael Hartnett, 58, Irish poet, alcoholic liver disease.
 * James E. Williams, 68, American Cherokee indian and Medal of Honor recipient.
 * Qasem-Ali Zahirnejad, Iranian Army general, stroke.

14

 * Franca Dominici, 92, Italian actress and voice actress.
 * Diethard Hellmann, 70, German Kantor and an academic.
 * Julius Nyerere, 77, Tanzanian anti-colonial activist and politician, leukemia.
 * Richard B. Shull, 70, American actor, heart attack.
 * Jerry Walter McFadden, 51, American serial killer and sex offender, execution by lethal injection.

15

 * Yosef Burg, 90, German-born Israeli politician.
 * Durgawati Devi, 92, Indian revolutionary and a freedom fighter.
 * Terry Gilkyson, 83, American folk singer, composer, and lyricist.
 * Eddie Jones, 64, British science fiction illustrator.
 * Torsten Lilliecrona, 78, Swedish actor.
 * Josef Locke, 82, Irish tenor.
 * Steve Ramsey, 51, American gridiron football player, traffic accident.

16

 * Bobbie Beard, 69, American child actor.
 * Bruce Cameron, 43, American guitarist, suicide.
 * Bill Dodgin, 90, English football player, manager and coach.
 * Ella Mae Morse, 75, American popular singer, respiratory failure.
 * Jean Shepherd, 78, American raconteur, radio and TV personality, writer and actor.

17

 * Hugh Bolton, 70, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * William Gould Dow, 104, American scientist, educator and inventor.
 * Tommy Durden, 79, American guitarist and songwriter.
 * Richard John Harrison, 79, British academic.
 * Rick Lapointe, 44, Canadian ice hockey player, heart attack.
 * Nicholas Metropolis, 84, Greek-American physicist.
 * Ralph Grey, Baron Grey of Naunton, 89, New Zealand peer and last Governor of Northern Ireland.
 * Charles Wanstall, 87, Australian politician.
 * Franz Peter Wirth, 80, German film director and screenwriter.

18

 * Dallas Bower, 92, British director and producer.
 * Mahanambrata Brahmachari, 94, Hindu monk.
 * John Cannon, 66, sports car racer, aircraft crash.
 * Tony Crombie, 74, English jazz drummer, pianist, bandleader and composer.
 * Paddi Edwards, 68, British-American actress, respiratory failure.
 * Ross Parmenter, 87, Canadian music critic, editor, and author.

19

 * Auður Auðuns, 88, Icelandic lawyer and politician.
 * Harry Bannink, 70, Dutch composer, arranger and pianist.
 * Robert Black, 93, British colonial administrator, Governor of Singapore (1955–1957).
 * Hayes Gordon, 79, American actor, stage director and acting teacher, heart disease.
 * Ray Katt, 72, American baseball player and coach, lymphoma.
 * Zeng Liansong, 81, Chinese economist and designer of the nation's flag.
 * Penelope Mortimer, 81, English journalist, biographer and novelist, cancer.
 * James C. Murray, 82, American politician.
 * Nathalie Sarraute, 99, French writer and lawyer..
 * E. J. Scovell, 92, English poet and translator.

20

 * Hans Georg Amsel, 94, German entomologist.
 * Loukas Barlos, 79, Greek businessman, lung cancer.
 * Agim Çavdarbasha, 55, Kosovo-Albanian sculptor.
 * Calvin Griffith, 87, American Major League Baseball team owner.
 * Mae Street Kidd, 95, American businesswoman, civic leader and politician.
 * Jack Lynch, 82, Irish Fianna Fáil politician and fourth Taoiseach (1966–1973, 1977–1979), cerebrovascular disease.
 * Willi Schröder, 70, German football player.
 * Abdullah Sungkar, 62, Indonesian islamist and founder of terror group Jemaah Islamiyah.

21

 * Queenie Ashton, 95, Australian actress.
 * Lars Bo, 75, Danish artist and writer.
 * John Bromwich, 80, Australian tennis player.
 * Esther Fernández, 84, Mexican film and television actress, lung infarction.
 * H. Stuart Hughes, 83, American historian, professor, and activist.
 * LaMont Johnson, 58, American jazz pianist, heart failure.
 * Ahmet Taner Kışlalı, 60, Turkish politician, intellectual, lawyer, columnist, and academic.
 * Horst Krüger, 80, German novelist.
 * Fran O'Brien, 63, American football player, heart attack.
 * Heinz Renneberg, 72, West German rower and Olympic champion.
 * Gennady Vasilyev, 59, Russian film director, cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Eric Wauters, 48, Belgian equestrian and Olympic medalist.

22

 * Alphonse Anger, 84, French gymnast.
 * Martin Donnelly, 82, New Zealand cricketer and England rugby player.
 * Ed Mikan, 74, American basketball player.
 * István Nagy, 60, Hungarian football player.
 * Gordon Smith, 91, American ice hockey player.
 * Irv Spencer, 61, Canadian ice hockey player.

23

 * Jean Dauger, 79, French rugby player.
 * András Hegedüs, 76, Hungarian communist politician.
 * Neriman Köksal, 71, Turkish actress, breast cancer.
 * Trudi Meyer, 85, German gymnast.
 * Eric Reece, 90, Australian politician, Premier of Tasmania (1958–1969).
 * Luciano Soprani, Italian fashion designer, throat cancer.
 * Cyril James Stubblefield, 98, British geologist.
 * Albert Tucker, 84, Australian artist.
 * Francis Whitaker, 93, American artist and blacksmith.
 * Bobby Willis, 57, British songwriter, lung and liver cancer.

24

 * John Chafee, 77, American politician and senator, congestive heart failure.
 * Lucien De Muynck, 68, Belgian middle-distance runner and Olympian.
 * Georges Gandil, 73, French sprint canoeist.
 * Ginette Harrison, 41, British climber, climbing accident.
 * Berthe Qvistgaard, 89, Danish stage and film actress.
 * Philip Sansom, 83, British anarchist writer and activist.
 * Marc Simenon, 60, French director and screenwriter, fall.

25

 * Leonard Boyle, 75, Irish and Canadian scholar in medieval studies and palaeography.
 * Vittorio Erspamer, 90, Italian pharmacologist and chemist.
 * Rosalie Gascoigne, 82, New Zealand-Australian sculptor.
 * Arturo Herbruger, 87, Guatemalan politician.
 * Samson Kisekka, 87, Ugandan politician, heart attack.
 * Johannes Käbin, 94, Soviet and Estonian politician.
 * Victor Saúde Maria, 60, Bissau-Guinean politician, homicide.
 * S. Rajeswara Rao, 77, Indian composer and musician.
 * Payne Stewart, 42, American golfer, plane crash.
 * David Spence Thomson, 83, New Zealand politician.

26

 * Maria Alba, 89, Spanish-American film actress.
 * Hoyt Axton, 61, American folk music singer-songwriter and actor, heart attack.
 * Eknath Easwaran, 88, Indian-American spiritual teacher and author.
 * Rex Gildo, 63, German singer of schlager ballads, suicide.
 * Christiane Jaccottet, 62, Swiss harpsichordist and musicologist.
 * Abraham Polonsky, 88, American film director, screenwriter, essayist and novelist.
 * Albert Whitlock, 84, British motion picture matte artist, Parkinson's disease.

27

 * Wes Berggren, 28, American musician and guitarist for rock band Tripping Daisy, drug overdose.
 * Johnny Byrne, 60, English footballer, heart attack.
 * Lois Collier, 80, American film actress, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Frank De Vol, 88, American arranger, composer and actor, heart failure.
 * Xie Fei, 66, Chinese politician, Politburo member, leukemia.
 * Robert Mills, 72, American physicist.
 * José Aarón Alvarado Nieves, 33, Mexican professional wrestler, infection.
 * Éamonn O'Doherty, 60, Northern Irish political activist.
 * Charlotte Perriand, 96, French architect and designer.
 * Glen Vernon, 76, American actor.
 * Austin B. Williams, 80, American carcinologist, cancer.
 * Notable victims killed in the Armenian parliament shooting in Yerevan, Armenia:
 * Vazgen Sargsyan, 40, Prime Minister
 * Karen Demirchyan, 67, National Assembly Speaker
 * Yuri Bakhshyan, 52, Deputy National Assembly Speaker
 * Leonard Petrosyan, 46, Minister of Urgent Affairs

28

 * Howard Browne, 91, American science fiction editor and mystery writer.
 * Ralph Crosthwaite, 63, American basketball player.
 * Antonis Katinaris, 68, Greek musician.
 * Rafael Alberti Merello, 96, Spanish poet.
 * Gastone Pescucci, 73, Italian actor and voice actor.

29

 * Kamal Adham, 69-70, Saudi businessman, heart attack.
 * Brita Appelgren, 86, Swedish film actress.
 * Tom Dickinson, 102, American football player.
 * Rosa Furman, 69, Mexican actress, cardiac arrest.
 * Greg, 68, Belgian cartoonist, aneurysm.
 * Cavan Kendall, 57, British actor, cancer.
 * Colin Matthew, 58, British historian and academic, heart attack.
 * Aolar Mosely, 87, American artist.
 * Borhan Abu Samah, 34, Singaporean football player, liver cancer.

30

 * Nise da Silveira, 94, Brazilian psychiatrist and student of Carl Jung, pneumonia.
 * Grace McDonald, 81, American actress, pneumonia.
 * Uxío Novoneyra, 69, Spanish poet, journalist and children's writer.
 * Max Patkin, 79, American baseball player and clown.
 * Gábor Pogány, 84, Hungarian-born Italian cinematographer.
 * Savumiamoorthy Thondaman, 86, Sri Lankan politician.
 * Maigonis Valdmanis, 66, Latvian basketball player.
 * Paul Wheatley, 78, British-American historical geographer.
 * Ratko Čolić, 81, Serbian football player.

31

 * Gameel Al-Batouti, 59, Egyptian aviator; relief first officer on EgyptAir Flight 990
 * Denise Bellon, 97, French photographer.
 * August Chełkowski, 72, Polish physicist and politician.
 * John Wainwright Evans, 90, American astronomer, murder–suicide.
 * Howard Ferguson, 91, Irish composer and musicologist.
 * Martin Hellberg, 94, German actor, director and writer.
 * Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits, 78, British rabbi.
 * Greg Moore, 24, Canadian racecar driver, racing accident.
 * Wyatt Ruther, 76, American jazz double-bassist.